1st Edition
Going Multinational The Korean Experience of Direct Investment
Edited By Frédérique Sachwald
Copyright 2001
398 Pages
by
Routledge
398 Pages
by
Routledge
400 Pages
by
Routledge
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At the beginning of the 1990s, Korean firms embarked on an impressive wave of direct investment abroad. This dramatic multinationalization was considered as yet another sign of Korea's remarkable economic performance, especially as a high proportion of the foreign ventures were located in advanced countries. But this unbalanced quest for globalization actually tested the 'Korean model' to its... Read more
1. Frederique Sachwald Emerging Multinational: the Main Issues 2. Francoise Nicolas A Case of Government-led Integration into the World Economy 3. Serge Perrin Korean Direct Investment in North America and Europe: Patterns and Determinants 4. Luis Miotti and Frederique Sachwald Korean Multinationals' Strategies and International Learning 5. Serge Perrin The Internationalization of Korean Electronics Firms: Domestic Rivalry and Tariff-Jumping 6. Marc Lautier The International Development of the Korean Automobile Industry 7. Kong-Rae Lee Technological Catching-up through Overseas Direct Investment: Samsung's Camera Business 8. Alice Amsden, René Belderbos, John Cantwell, Byungki Ha, Pierre Jacquet, Randall Jones, Bruce Kogut and Lynn Mytelka Discussion 9. Frédérique Sachwald Globalization and Korea's Development Trajectory: the Roles of Domestic and Foreign Multinationals
Biography
Frederique Sachwald is Head of Economic Studies at IFRI, Paris, (French Institute for International Relations) and an affiliated professor at University Paris XIII. She has been published extensively on multinationals and cooperative alliances between firms in the context of innovation-led competition. One of her main research areas is the interactions between globalization and national systems of production and innovation.
